We are pleased to announce the Cold Spring Harbor Asia conference on Advances in Optical Interrogation of Living Cells and Organisms: Focus on the Brain which will be held in Suzhou, China, located approximately 60 miles west of Shanghai. The conference will begin at 7:00pm on the evening of Monday May 10, and will conclude in the evening after banquet on Thursday, and depart on Friday, May 14, 2027.
The conference will include seven oral sessions and one poster session covering the latest findings across many topics in Optical Interrogation. Many talks will be selected from the openly submitted abstracts on the basis of scientific merit and relevance. Social events throughout the conference provide ample opportunity for informal interactions.
Major Topics:
1. In vivo imaging of neuronal structure and function underlying behavior
2. Mapping brain circuits
3. Large scale imaging and connectomics
4. Super-resolution and correlative microscopy
5. Understanding neural modulation
6. Novel imaging modalities
7. Optical interrogation of molecular signaling
Keynote Speakers:
Atsushi Miyawaki, Riken Brain Science Institute
Muming Poo, Institute of Neuroscience, CAS
Invited Speakers:
Marlene Bartos, University of Freiburg
Guoqiang Bi, CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Research
Liangyi Chen, Peking University
Daniel Choquet, University of Bordeaux
David Fitzpatrick, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
Michael Häusser, The University of Hong Kong
Mark Hübener, Max Planck Institute for Biological Intelligence
Takeshi Imai, Kyushu University
David Kleinfeld, University of California, San Diego
Takaki Komiyama, University of California, San Diego
Arthur Konnerth, Technical University of Munich
Soohyun Lee, National Institutes of Health
Sabine Liebscher, University of Innsbruck
Danqian Liu, Institute of Neuroscience, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Christian Lohmann, Netherlands Institute for Neuroscience
Masanori Matsuzaki, University of Tokyo
Valentin Nägerl, Universitätsmedizin Göttingen
Kenichi Ohki, University of Tokyo
Hanchuan Peng, Fudan University
Jackie Schiller, Israel Institute of Technology
Ryohei Yasuda, Max Planck Florida Institute for Neuroscience
Yi Zuo, University of California, Santa Cruz
We encourage abstracts to contain new and unpublished materials. The abstracts must be submitted electronically by the abstract deadline. Selection of material for oral and poster presentation will be made by the organizers. Status (fellow's talk/poster) of abstracts will be posted on our web site as soon as decisions have been made by the organizers.
Fellowship:
We are eager to have as many young people as possible attend since they are likely to benefit most from this meeting. A certain number of presentations by graduate students and postdocs in this conference will be selected as fellowship (USD $100-$500) awards. For more details, please visit Stipends
We look forward to seeing you at Suzhou in May, 2027.
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